I'm not claiming "credit for everything F12", just the right to (commercially) use anything related to F12 even when contributed by others and the exclusive rights to my own design and to the class name and structure. The latter being largely the result of my work over the last 18 months as well.

There is definately a difference here !

At some point the rights need to be concentrated in one entity; otherwise growing the class and enforcing the class rules will be pretty much a impossible task. Some blowhards immediately equate this to dictatorship, but then again it is always easy to just blabber away without actually investing any time or money in the project.

I'm just interested in making this F12 project a succes and it is a rare occurance when a committee succeeds at something like this. They called me a dictator in the F16 class as well, and right now I'm not even a F16 class official anymore. Still the F16 class was succesfully launched internationally where many other miserably failed (Taipan class ?). Sometimes, if you want to get results, you just have to trust people.

Additionally, creating and building up a new class to critical mass takes literally 1000's of manhours. I think the F16 class costed me just over 4000 manhours in total over 5 years time. Don't you think that earns a person some ownership rights to the class ? If a company wants that kind of investment from me then they have to shell out at least some 60.000 Euro's in net pay. You bloody nitwit !

And I sure as hell am not going to spend the equivalent of 60.000 Euro's on the F12 class and have others walk away with the credit and earnings. That would make me a right fool.

Wouter